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Titlesort icon Year Genre Director More information
621 Rogue 2007 adventure; horror Greg Mclean

- unidentified actor in metal rims.
- unidentified actress in plastic rims.
Notes based on trailer only.
622 Romero 1989 biography; drama John Duigan

Raul Julia wears browline glasses as Archbishop Óscar A. Romero did during his life.
623 Room Service 1938 comedy William A. Seiter

Groucho Marx as Gordon Miller.
624 Roost, The 2005 horror Ti West

- unidentified actor in glasses.
625 Royal Tenenbaums, The 2001 comedy Wes Anderson

Anjelica Huston as Etheline Tenenbaum.
Bill Murray as Raleigh St. Clair.
Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum .
626 Ruang rak noi nid mahasan 2003 comedy; drama; romance Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

- Tadanobu Asano in metal rims as Kenji, the male lead character. This role yielded him a Chlotrudis Award nomination for best actor (2005) and won him the Upstream Prize for best actor (Venice Film Festival - 2003).
- Production of Thailand and Japan.
- Dialogue in Thai, Japanese and English.
627 Ruins, The 2008 horror Carter Smith

Jena Malone (as Amy) dons specs in a dark plastic frame at some moments in the movie.
628 Rumble in the Bronx 1995 action; comedy; crime Stanley Tong

Characters:
Uncle Bill (by Bill Tung): round gold rimmed - minus lenses
Elaine (by Anita Mui): oval metal rimmed reading glasses (plus)
mobster: rectangular steel rimmed
629 Runaway Jury 2003 drama; thriller Gary Fleder

- Dustin Hoffman as Wendell Rohr.
- One still of Marguerite Moreau in the role of Amanda Monroe.
630 Sabrina 1995 comedy; romance Sydney Pollack

I haven't seen this movie yet. Notes based on one still and poster artwork.
Harrison Ford wears roundish wire framed glasses as the male lead Linus Larrabee.
631 Safety Last! 1923 comedy Fred C. Newmeyer; Sam Taylor

Lloyd dangling from a clock wearing a suit, straw hat and glasses. Nothing more needs to be said.
632 Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 comedy Colin Trevorrow
  • Aubrey Plaza briefly in large plastic eyeglasses as Darius.
  • Karan Soni in metal rims as Arnau.
633 Santa Baby 2 2009
comedy
fantasy
 Ron Underwood

- Kelly Stables in acetate eyewear as Teri.
- Christmas themed production made for TV.
634 Sarah, Plain and Tall 1991 drama Glenn Jordan

Christopher Walken as Jacob Witting is a young widower and father who is looking for a new mother for his children. Glenn Close as Sarah agrees to a one month's test. Walken's character uses reading glasses.
635 Satansbraten 1976 crime; drama; social satire Rainer Werner Fassbinder

- unidentified actress in round wire framed glasses with lenticular lenses
- unidentified actor in round wire frame

- English title: Satan's Brew
- dialogue in German
636 Sauna 2008 horror Antti-Jussi Annila

- Ville Virtanen as Eerik who wears a metal frame with small oval lenses and without earbends.
637 Schatten der Zeit 2004 drama; romance Florian Gallenberger

The main character Ravi (Prashant Narayanan) starts wearing round wire specs at the point where he has become a wealthy business man.
His wife's grandfather (Satya Bandopadhyaya) wears cheap plastic glasses.
There's a short scene in which a bespectacled secretary in Ravi's business remarks to the latter's wife that her husband behaves strangely too every time right before the beginning of the rain season.
English film title: Shadows of Time.
638 Science des rêves, La 2006 comedy; fantasy Michel Gondry

Alain Chabat as Guy (to be verified).
639 Scoop 2006 comedy Woody Allen

Scarlett Johansson wears round gold rimmed glasses as the lead character Sondra Pransky, a student of journalism.
640 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
action
comedy
romance
 Edgar Wright

- Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Gordon Graves in black plastic designer style eyewear.
- unidentified actress in rimless glasses with line "She's way out of your league."